Hello. 2008/12/2 Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com> > > Alexander: > >> 2008/12/1 Calum Benson <Calum.Benson at sun.com <mailto:Calum.Benson at >> sun.com>> On 27 Nov 2008, at 14:57, Johann Gile wrote: >> > why does the GNOME Keyboard Preferences not have a 'Layouts' tabs as >> > in Linux? >> >> The short answer is that the Linux version is rather broken. >> Isn't that a bit *too* short? :) > > Did you not read the bug report pointers Calum provided? They explain the > problem in detail.
Yes, they go into detail - too much detail :) >> I mean, after all, the Linux >> version allows to easily achieve what he (and also I) >> wants. > > libxklavier depends on X.org Xserver interfaces which are not a part of the > X11 specifications. Therefore, if you use libxklavier across different > Xservers (such as X.org and Xsun), then it can behave in very broken ways. Okay. I think I already said this, but anyway: It might be so, that the way the solution is implemented on Linux is no good. But for a user, this doesn't matter (at least it doesn't matter for me). I simply compare what I can do in Gnome on Linux and on OpenSolaris. And doing that, I find that OpenSolaris lacks a feature. There might be good and valid reasons for that, but those aren't glaringly obvious, I think. You have to look at implementation details to see those reasons (and no, this of course doesn't make those reasons be "less right"). Alexander -- [ Chat => Jabber: alexws77 at jabber80.com | Gmail: a.skwar at gmail.com ] [ Mehr => MSN: alexws77 at live.de | Yahoo!: askwar | ICQ: 350677419 ]
